Background

I tend to find specific questions all-consuming at one moment and ontologically dull at another. This helps to explain why I've written about such disparate topics as:

• Evolutionary taxonomy, anti-essentialism, and the religion category;

• Jacobean natural philosophy, urban commerce, and the "science" of money;

• The peculiar collision between Biblical criticism and evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century;

• The medicalization of religio-political dissent in Georgian England;

• Household debt as a key component of class and capital after the Second World War

My primary areas of interest are modern political and social theory, broadly construed. I am chuffed to report that my book–No Bosses, No Gods: Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion– will be published as part of De Gruyter's Religion & Reason series in late April or early May 2023. Professionally speaking, I have no idea what comes next.

I adore Oaxacan food, detest having my picture taken, and wish I'd learned Russian somewhere along the way. My wife and I have two sons and a modestly clever Golden Retriever named Duck. We spend our summers in Downeast Maine renovating a mid-nineteenth-century farmhouse and sailing the prickly waters of Cobscook Bay. 

Recent Graduate Seminars

• Marx, Weber, Bourdieu

• The Landscapes of American Capitalism

Courses

Fall 2023

• REL3142: Religion, Self and Society
• REL3171: Topics in Ethics: Religion & Revolution (Honors)

Spring 2023

• REL3142: Religion, Self and Society
• REL3171: Topics in Ethics: Religion & Revolution